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Flowers That Kill : Communicative Opacity in Political Spaces.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (297 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780804795944
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Flowers That KillDDC classification:
  • 320.9401/4
LOC classification:
  • JC347
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Opacity, Misrecognition, and Other Complexities of Symbolic Communication -- Part I: Sources of Communicative Opacity: Many Meanings, One Meaning, the Aesthetic -- 1. Japanese Cherry Blossoms: From the Beauty of Life to the Sublimity of Sacrificial Death -- 2. European Roses: From "Bread and Roses" to the Aestheticization of Murderers -- 3. The Subversive Monkey in Japanese Culture: From Scapegoat to Clown -- 4. Rice and the Japanese Collective Self: Purity by Exclusion -- Part II: Collective Identities and Their Symbolic Expression -- 5. The Collective Self and Cultural/Political Nationalisms: Cross-Cultural Perspectives -- Part III: (Non-)Externalization: Religious and Political Authority/P ower -- 6. The Invisible and Inaudible Japanese Emperor -- 7. (Non-)Externalization of Religious and Political Authority/Power: A Cross-Cultural Perspective -- Afterword -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Opacity, Misrecognition, and Other Complexities of Symbolic Communication -- Part I: Sources of Communicative Opacity: Many Meanings, One Meaning, the Aesthetic -- 1. Japanese Cherry Blossoms: From the Beauty of Life to the Sublimity of Sacrificial Death -- 2. European Roses: From "Bread and Roses" to the Aestheticization of Murderers -- 3. The Subversive Monkey in Japanese Culture: From Scapegoat to Clown -- 4. Rice and the Japanese Collective Self: Purity by Exclusion -- Part II: Collective Identities and Their Symbolic Expression -- 5. The Collective Self and Cultural/Political Nationalisms: Cross-Cultural Perspectives -- Part III: (Non-)Externalization: Religious and Political Authority/P ower -- 6. The Invisible and Inaudible Japanese Emperor -- 7. (Non-)Externalization of Religious and Political Authority/Power: A Cross-Cultural Perspective -- Afterword -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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